Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-04-11
General News items.

Over $500 carpenters in Chicago have
struck. They demand anincrease of pay
and work but eight hours.
j. j. Cornellson, Il Kentucky attorney,
whipping Judge Reid, who subse-
| quently committed suicide.
That was a genuine tribute which the
| Jews of Brooklyn paid to Henry Ward
Beecher when they added over 81, 900 to
| the monument fund after their glowing
words i'll praise of his personal character.
The Hotel del Monte, near Monterey,
California, was burned Friday night. The
| house was tull of New England excursion
| lists, all of whom fortunately escaped un-
harmed, but in many Instances minus of
their effects.
OF the 81 oleomargarne factories in
this country III are in Chicago, and none
is found east of that city by internal rev.
enue officers. On February 2, 6I5, 719
pounds were made, taxed and removed
for sale, and only 80, 900 pounds were eX-
ported.
The Secretary of War has received Il
telegram from the commandment of the
post at Fort Yates, OAK, saying that So
persons who had been driven from their
homes by the floods on the Missouri had
appeared at the post III IA starving condi-
ton, and many of them without clothing
OF any account.
An engine and "a freight cars jumped
the track on the Boston and Albany rail-
road in Cambridge, Mass, last Monday,
and went over a small embanklnent En-
gineer Parsons and brakeman Bates Jump
ed, the former escaping nniniured and the
Was instantly killed.
The twenty-first national encampment
of the G. a. r. of the United States. will
be held in St. Louis in September next.
The general executive committee are pre-
pairing to do all in their power to welcome
all guests and have appointed sub com
mittees to attend to all arrangements
necessary for their pleasure and comfort
the Car of Russia was last week Tues
day walking on the terrace overlooking
the lawn at Gatschina palace, St. Peters
burg, when shot was fired from behind
a bush and Il bullet whiStled close to the
Cars ear A second shot was fired
from behind another bush, but without
effect. A sentinel near, Immediately fired
upon the first assassin, and it is reported
killed him on the spot. The second as
sassin tried to escape, but was arrested.
He proved to be an officer of the army.
Six thousand five hundred carpenters
employed by the various contractors and
shop owners throughout Chicago and
suburbs stopped work Monday morning
and building operations will be suspend
| ed indefinitely. The leaders of the car
| penters who after "A long struggle last
summer, failed to carry out their demands
for eight hours and an increase of wages,
think that now when the building enter
| prise is reviying and the carpenters are
wanted the time has arrived to make the
| EMPLOYERS yield.
i The reported loss of the sailing steam.
/ er Eagle with 260 men seems to be con
hrined, according to reports from ST.
Johns, n. F. The greatest excitement
prevails there over this, the most fright
full calamity in the recent history Of the
colony. Most of the crew of the f tgIe
were married and lived about St. Johns
and all of them We're in the prime of life.
The city was in mourning yesterday. A
! special To the Boston Journal from ST
Johns says the steamer Eagle was last
seen by the steamer Aurora on the night
OF the llth near Funk's island. terri
bic sea was running at the time Mex
morning the Aurora could find no trace oil
the Eagle, and nothing has been seen O
| the Inflated vessel since.